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Monday, 29 June 2015

We are sharing another weekly project with you. Today, it's the turn of the beautiful stamp set which can be used for any occasion.

'You Are Lovely'

Heidi's card has been made using the set. She has stamped the image around the outside of the card bland and then again as the main image, coloured in with Promarker pens. The butterfly and has been decoupaged over the original image and some gorgeous lilac ribbon completes the card.

This set is at a special price this week of only £4.50, normally £5.50. It will stay at this price until Thursday, 2nd July 2015 or whilst we have stock.

We also have a wonderful offer on paper packs on our website, the Pastel Tartan pack is included in the offer.

1. First off I used the purple sheet of Quirky Quilts papers to cover the blank card but I did add a little grey distress ink around the edges.

2. I then stamped the image onto a piece of white card using the memento black ink and then I clear embossed it.

3. I paper pieced the image using the green and pink piece of Quirky Quilts papers. I again inked the edges and matted it onto a piece of pale blue card. Then the card was inked. I adhered the image to the card using 3D pads.

4. I then cut out some of the hexagons from the purple sheet of Quirky Quilts paper and edged them with the distress ink.

5. Next I embossed them a little to give them some shape.

I then randomly adhered them over the flat hexagons using 3D pads to give them a raised look.

I think this gives the card a lovely quilted look and it's a great idea for a new home card.

1. I stared by making my easel card. I took the card blank and folded one side of the card in half to create the mechanism.

2. For the front topper of the card I printed the digi onto some card and coloured using promarkers. This was then matted onto some pink card. I used some scraps of patterned paper from my stash for the background before adding the die cut fence and bird. I also stamped and cut out the greeting.

3. For the base of the card I used the digi cupcake trio onto white and pink card. This was mounted using foam pads to create the stopper for the easel card to stand up. Some thin pink ribbon and gems were the finishing touch.

So take advantage of our Special Offer - Buy any 3 of our larger (£4.99 paper packs) and choose any 3 Dinkie stamps FREE OR Buy any 3 of our Mini (£2.99 paper packs) and choose any 2 Dinkie stamps FREE!

Such a great offer and here's a great prize...go take a look at our Dinkie stamps and let us know which one is your favourite, we will give 3 lucky recipients their Dinkie of choice in our draw next Tuesday 30 June, good luck!

Friday, 19 June 2015

Marianne here with today's project. I know there were a couple of different post it holders on here a little while ago but this one includes a pen and is a bit different to the others. I wanted to make some to sell at craft fairs and after playing around with a few ideas finally settled on this design.

2 Cover the top of the coaster with a piece of 10cm square card. Sand the edges which helps to adhere the card to the MDF and gives a smooth finish.

3 Attach the scored and folded card to the bottom of the coaster.

4 Stamp the image onto black card using the white stamp pad. Cut to 7cm wide x 9cm high. Use a decorative corner punch on all corners (optional). I have used a Martha Stewart corner punch. Attach to the top.

5 Attach the postits to the coaster. Pen clips inside.

The card I used had different patterns on either side. This shows the inside of the holder.

I hope this has given you another idea for making one of these. You could also use a memo block rather than postits. They make a nice little present and would be great as teacher's gifts.

1. Open the digi stamp in work and crop the image to remove the sentiment that comes with the digi and type a new sentiment under the image. I've typed Happy Father's Day but you could type any sentiment you wish.

2. Print out your image onto card stock and matt onto black card.

3. Please a piece of white card in the cloud embossing folder and run through your die cutting machine.

4. Matt the embossed card onto a piece of black card stock.

5. Attach a piece of black ribbon and black and white twine and tape to the back of the embossed card. Attach to the card base.

Friday, 12 June 2015

Good morning everyone, it's Helen N here with this week's Friday Blog Project and I'm going to show you how to make a simple scene card using one of the new Silhouette Outline Stickers and some of the gorgeous Little Claire Ombre paper.

1. Carefully peel one of the outline sticker squares off the sheet and place it face down on your cutting mat. Line up the bottom edge of the sticker with one of the lines on the mat as shown in the photo below:

2. Choose one of the papers from the Mini Ombre Paper Pack. Place the paper face down over the outline sticker square using the lines on your cutting mat as a guide. This will ensure that your outline sticker is straight across the ombre design as shown in the photo below:

3. Cut out the outline sticker square using the edges of the sticker to guide your scissors and put this to one side.

4. I've put lots of layers on my card base so I thought I would share my tip for getting the layers of papers straight and evenly spaced. Put a piece of double sided tape along each edge of the piece of paper and then peel off a small 'tab' at one end of each piece of tape as shown in the photo below:

5. Mat the layer on to the bigger piece of paper - the tabs will mean that you have room to move the top piece of paper easily if you don't get it straight first time. Once you're happy with the layers, pull the tabs to remove the rest of the tape.

6. The layers I've used are (working up from the base) 14cm square of blue card, 13.5cm square of black paper, 13cm square of blue card, 11.5cm square of black paper and finally an 11cm square of Ombre paper. This is from the full size pack and the designs in this and the Mini Ombre Paper Pack match so you can use the same colours.

A tip when you cut the Ombre paper is to ensure that you cut the same amount from each side of the paper. The paper measures 14cm square in the pack and on my card, the piece I've used measures 11cm square. If you just cut 3cm off two sides of the paper, you will end up with more of one colour of the ombre shading than the other. Instead make sure you cut 1.5cm off each side of the paper so you keep the ombre colouring even.

7. Mat the sticker square on to the front of the card matching up the ombre colours on the base paper. Colour the sun with Promarkers - I've used Vanilla and Saffon as I felt the darker yellow colours looked better against the background. Stamp a sentiment and finish the card with black gems:

Here are some more cards I created with the new Silhouette Outline Sticker sheets:

Thursday, 11 June 2015

With Father’s Day fast approaching here in the UK it’s time to get a few masculine cards made and for any garden lovers out there this image is just perfect.

I’ve coloured the shed with alcohol markers and tried to make it look textured like real wood. And to brighten the card up a little I’ve made a simple sky and grass background using some bright green and blue card.

I made this card to give to my Dad for Father’s Day so I’ve made it into an easel card so that I’ve have extra space for the sentiment. Here is the finished card:

Cut 2 pieces of blue card 13.5cm square. Mat onto white and then beige card and fix one to the inside of the card and one to the easel.

Cut a piece of 13.5cm by 8cm green card. Cut this in half using a wavy line and fix to each of the blue panels.

Die cut the clouds from white card and fix to the top of the card.

Print both images onto white stamping card. Cut the Office Shed image out leaving a small white border round the edge and die cut the Seed Packet image into a circle and colour both images with alcohol markers.

Fix the shed to the card using foam pads.

Write the sentiment on the computer and print onto white card. Trim into a fishtail and mat onto beige card. Fix to the card blank with foam pads.

Mat the seed packet image onto a circle die cut from beige card and fix to the card blank using foam pads.

Hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. If you would like a little more detail on alcohol marker colours please stop by my blog www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com

Sunday, 7 June 2015

Card designed by Helen Nile using Hedgehog from our latest stamp set and papers from our new Quirky Quilts pad

We've had a great day today, Steve's been to the Doncaster StampMagic show and we've been in the garden catching some rays - so we are feeling good.

Here's a special one day sizzling summer offer just for you:

Spend £20 (or over) when you place an order with us before 6pm tomorrow (Monday 08 June) and choose any stamp to the value of £5.50 FREE! Just email us with your choice of stamp and we will add it to your order.
So stock up on your stamps, paper pads, stickers etc and grab a bargain at the same time - hurry, offer ends 6pm tomorrow (subject to availability).

GO SHOPPING!

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